There are many reasons why you might be interested
in ETSI Risk Assessment and Toxicology Services. For example, you may need a Risk Assessment to:
• Bring your property to optimum conditions. Your optimum conditions can be defined by regulatory approval, maximum property value or elimination of and use restrictions;
• Establish cost effective remediation goals;
• Determine the best and most cos
t effective remediation alternative(s);
• Determine when a remedial action has achieved its goal of protecting human health and the environment;
• Establish risk control measures to protect human health and the environment. Unlike traditional site assessment and remediation programs where the focus of a corrective action is solely to reduce the amount of contaminants to background or very low, default cleanup levels, ETSI’s approach is to realistically set attainable remediation goals. The most tangible benefit of a risk assessment is its ability to
reduce remediation costs. However, there are other cost saving
advantages of using risk assessment in your project. For example, you can reduce your environmental cleanup
costs by:
• Eliminating from consideration areas that do not represent a risk;
• Prioritizing areas for remediation. Resources can and should be dedicated to high risk areas while low risk areas can be remediated using low cost technologies (passive remediation);
• Immediately attacking areas of greatest concern and preventing the spread of contamination;
• Reducing your potential liabilities by targeting your resources to the remediation of those areas that actually represent a risk;
• Reducing waste production and disposal costs;
• Maximizing land value by assuring owners or prospective buyers that the remediated site do not represent a risk to human health and the environment;
• By finding alternate corrective actions that can be used to reduce risk;
• Reducing regulatory agency oversight and possibly litigation costs;
• Accelerating regulatory agency approval; and,
• By minimizing the potential for future corrective
actions or litigation.
